Cream (Dutch) (Mrs. Dwyer's Recipe)

Ingredients

• 1 pint milk
• 1 gill cream
• 4 oz loaf sugar
• lb ground rice
• 1 egg
• glassful brandy
• oz chopped lemon or citron preserve
• 1 orange
• 1 tablespoonful apricot marmalade
• 1 wineglassful brandy

Instructions

1. Boil 1 pint of milk, 4 oz. loaf sugar, and the ground rice together until the rice is quite soft.
2. Then add the egg, stirring all the time.
3. Then add 1 gill of cream and the other ingredients: the brandy, the chopped lemon or citron preserve, and the juice of an orange.
4. Put into a mould to set, and serve.
5. If you like, melt a tablespoonful of apricot marmalade in a little hot water, add a wineglass of brandy, and serve it with this cream -- but it is very good without.